Homo homini ... (Man is a Wolf to Man) Painting

József Szurcsik was born in Budapest in 1959. He completed his studies at the Hungarian College of Fine Arts 1981-1988. Szurcsik received strong artistic imp- ressions from his family, his father is a painter, his mother prepares gobelin tapestry. He has been active as an artist from an early age, and has had exhibitions regularly since the mid-eighties both in and outside Hungary. Being a creative and significant artist of his generation, Szurcsik prepares etchings, lithographs, oil and acrylic paintings and shapeing canvases, painted wood and steel sculptures and installations. Between 1986-1990 he performed with "Art Reaktor", his own art-musical ensemble. He has made several art performances since 1993. Beside his activities as an artist, he was 2006-2009 the head of the Visual Art Faculty of the Eszterhazy Karoly College in Eger, and later 2014- 2016 he was the Vice-rector of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. His symbolic human portrays – a recurring element of his art up to the present – are antropomorphous depictions of objects and edifices. Szurcsik's art is characterized by the surrealistic fusion of man and his or her material environment in a unique manner, and through these relations profoundly new domains of the human spirit are explored in his works. Presently he is the Head of Graphics Department at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest.